Santorum and conservatives must win Louisiana and beyond
Today should be a good day for Rick Santorum. Assuming he can keep his foot out of his mouth. But as the pro-Romney media is so willing to point out, a win today does not stop Romney.
What has to happen?
We are going to have to do something totally unique in American politics. We are going to have to borrow a page from the Tea Party movement. We conservatives are going to have to rise up and lead our leaders.
Newt Gingrich cannot win the nomination based on winning delegates in the primaries. Rick Santorum is not quite mathematically eliminated but he is getting close. If either of them drops out, Romney wins.
If either of them drops out, conservatives lose.
There have been some suggestions that Santorum and Gingrich join forces to stop Romney. For whatever reason, Gingrich and Santorum are not making that happen.
We the people need to make it happen so we can stop Romney.
Almost every day we see a new video coming out from the past of Mitt Romney. Yesterday the Blaze unearthed an old video of Mitt Romney saying his only connection to the Republican Party was his party registration. Before that was that famous video of him announcing he was a moderate, “a progressive.”
We all got a reality check this week when Romney campaign director Eric Fehrnstrom announced after the primary Romney would reset his campaign like an Etch a Sketch. We all understood that. He would go from “running like a conservative,” to being the liberal that he is.
We must support both candidates now to try and stop liberal Mitt Romney from becoming the nominee.
The campaigns may not unite but the supporters of both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are conservatives and we must unite to stop the liberal wing of the Republican Party from winning.
If the campaigns will not talk to each other, the people must. We must all work together to stop Romney.
When the Tea Party burst onto the scene, we did something amazing. A leaderless movement totally changed the way America was talking. We need to do that again. Our war is with socialism and if we are not careful, we will end up with two candidates running for President who love socialism. The only difference between them will be the degree to which they worship at the altar of big government.
There is one hard truth that I have accepted. As I now fight to stop Romney, I realize if we go to a brokered convention, my candidate Newt Gingrich may well not win that fight. As much as I would like him to be the nominee and as much as I believe he is absolutely the best candidate we have, if I have to see another conservative in his place in order to stop Mitt Romney, I am willing to see that happen. Every Newt supporter should feel the same way.
Santorum supporters need to come to the same decision. If we conservatives have to compromise and choose another conservative, someone other than Rick Santorum, in order to stop Mitt Romney, we should embrace this.
The Tea Party movement is about restoring a conservative, constitutional government to America. It is about resetting our government so that it respects our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We will never protect those rights with a liberal in the White House and it does not matter which party that liberal comes from. We must replace Barack Obama, but we gain little if we replace him with a Republican liberal who embraces most of the same policies.
This is freedom’s last stand. If Romney wins, liberty loses.
This is why we must all unite to stop Romney and elect a conservative President this fall.
Tags: gingrich, liberal, mitt, newt, primary, republican, rick, romney, santorum
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Permalink Reply by JC Patriot on -
There is a repeating tactic being used on many websites lately to try to convince conservatives to keep their moral views to themselves, and just focus on financial issues. I suppose we're just supposed to be stupid and fall for it one more time. In their minds, freedom of speech and expression is never supposed to extend to all of us, especially in the public square! But they'll be sneaky and claim it's just so "we can win the election."
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Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on -
When I read your comments all I see is that you have bought into the liberal lies and keep repeating it. Tell me what exactly is a right wing nut that the left keeps spewing? I'm a bit dense.
I'm tired of being demonized. Are you telling me because I believe in individual freedom, lower taxes, hands off by government in my life, having the ability to have freedom of speech and religion, that makes me a right wing nut? By the way, I'm not a Christian.
Who are the people with the hate speech that rile up the ignorant to act upon it? Not us! Who plays the race card when they can't win a debate? Not us.
Who were the racists in the south? Not us. Who loves to divide and conquer? Not us.
Why do we need hate crime legislation instead of defining crime of any form as crime ? Because the left wants to emphasize race baiting , gay bashing, encouraging anti-religious taunting. These actions rage the idiots out there to do more of it instead of stopping it.
What makes you think, that Timothy McVay, Rev. Phelps and others were true conservative Christians? Perhaps they were simply leftist anarchists? Stop buying into it.
Just because a candidate has personal religious convictions of a strong family, the respect for the sanctity of life, you call that a religious fanatic. My goodness, that's how the left thinks, not us.
I don't know what world you live in, but I happen to know many wonderful gay people in theater and the world of art. They live very fulfilled productive lives, not being bashed. But, then, they don't wear their preference on their sleeves, protesting or being in other people's faces.
In other words, they are not loud mouth activists, just like those nasty atheists who want everything having to do with G-d disappear. Why can't they go about doing what they want and leave the rest of us to do the same. It's the good old progressive belief of divide and conquer to be a bully and beat us into submission. Do you think such behavior will get respect? Not on your life! As you see, there is two sides to every story.
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Permalink Reply by Barry W Gaugler on -
Agi,
Great post. We are not here to condemn, or to judge people of different persuasions, but to love them to Messiah. G-d will be the judge of sin, not us. Many call themselves Christians, but do not have the love of Messiah in their hearts and actually are deceived by the father of lies. Many who call themselves by the name of Yeshua (Jesus) will hear these words from Him, "Depart from me, you who work iniquity. I never knew you." You cannot call yourself a Christian, or a Hebrew and harbour hatred in your heart for any man. We are to hate the sin and love the sinner. Unfortunately the sinner will always be filled with hate toward anyone, or anything that points to their sin, whether it is G-d Himself, His Words, or His people.
Shalom Ahlaychem
שלום עליכם
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Permalink Reply by JC Patriot on
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D B, when your learning of Christianity progresses, it will become apparent that being judgemental of others' interpretation of what "real Christianity" is, is in itself a display of not quite mastering one of the most basic beliefs. (Hint: without sin, first stone)
To some of us, Santorum is actually too far from the Constitution on many issues involving government exerting control and oppression over individuals, but if you wish to label him a "right-wing nut job," good luck in your pursuit of Christian aspirations.
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Permalink Reply by Helaine Chersonsky on -
We have a clear choice during this primary selection process; either select the candidate of rabid self ambition and self-interest, the candidate who has changed his positions on the issues so many times, as to make them unrecognizable, like Bill Clinton did; the candidate who can only seem to win when he spends millions to tear other candidates down; who has an effective campaign machine, but is ineffective in articulating his vision, his plan for helping America move forward; who is a product of Wall Street, the very type of individual who was so arrogant in his business practices that they helped to engineer the financial collapse of 2008- this man is Mitt Romney.
We are seeing the deadening effects of his style of campaigning as well; a real lack of enthusiasm, a very divided party, where the core conservatives are unwilling to give in to the stale chorus of the ham-fisted, private-equity charlatan. It is ugly; Yes, Romney is king of the hill in the extremely liberal northeast, a portion of the country that is under more thorough one-party domination than China..
The truth of the matter is painfully clear. After months of attack campaigning, not many people really want Mitt Romney for president. How electable can Mitt be, when he utterly fails to inspire his own party! His whole philosophy for the campaign seems to be towards “managing” the country, making the country slightly more efficient than it has been under the socialist regime of O and friends.
We do not need another manager; we need liberty, freedom, the core values that were established by both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution- these values seem to escape business manager, Romney.
Who is buying into this thinking? According to a breakdown by Patchwork Nation, Romney’s base of support is the wealthy and some urban Republicans, as well as suburbanites . Middle class or below, forget about it. Anybody who pays attention to moral and social issues? Forget it. You want to bring up electability? With that small base, he will get creamed in a general election. He doesn’t connect with the middle class, Hispanics don’t want to hear his “tough” stands on immigration, of course African Americans can’t stand him, Asians don’t appreciate him, he is not exactly a favorite with soccer moms, who want someone who can connect with their economic reality; rural voters don’t trust him, social conservatives wonder what kind of a chameleon he is, he doesn’t appeal to younger voters, either. Only some wealthy white voters really want Romney as their guy.
If you, as a voter, seriously are voting for Romney simply because you think that he is electable, you are deluding yourself. Forget it. He can’t compete with Obama’s war chest, and his appeal is limited, and excludes the Republican base.
So, who do I support? Well, we know that Ron Paul has a better chance of being elected President of Mexico, than of winning the nomination. The same pretty much applies to Newt Gingrich as well. That leaves Rick Santorum. The former Pennsylvania senator is solidly conservative, knows how to run a lean campaign, and most especially, he can connect with the middle class, with people struggling to make ends meet (and who isn’t these days?) Maybe Santorum isn’t the greatest debater, but when he stays on point, he has the strongest message; it’s about refocusing on basic, fundamental values that this country was built on, about freedom, not licentiousness, and about economic freedom to support our families. Santorum embodies his message in a way that Romney and Newt simply cannot; Romney is a product of the Wall Street raider culture. As conservatives, we have a choice in the upcoming primaries; either help our country survive and move forward and select a decent candidate, or fall back into the defeatist mentality of 2008. We cannot afford to do the latter.
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Permalink Reply by Barry W Gaugler on
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Helaine,
Well said. I would rather awaken in the morning with bad breath and a slight cough than wake up in the morning with both legs and an arm amputated. If we want to save this country, we need to nominate the most conservative candidate available. I cannot vote for another RINO and it seems to be a two man fight. One is a big money attack machine and the other is not anywhere near my first choice. I do not want Obama. Where is Sarah Palin when her country really needs her? She's out speaking somewhere. I know the times and the seasons. It will not be long now.
Shalom שלום
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Permalink Reply by Mark D. Kennedy on
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People, Romney has Soros ties. Obamacare was modled after Romney care. Etch-a-scetch! He wins, he erases his repblican agenda and goes back to a liberal one.
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Permalink Reply by Helaine Chersonsky on
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Mark, I believe you are right about Romney's Soros ties; nobody seems to have picked up on this. Fact 1: months ago, Soros stated that he was okay if either Obama or Romney were to be elected; he stated that the result would be the same for him if either was elected president; the next fact is that Romney is a multi-millionaire and runs in that rarefied air;I'm sure that he has met and had dealings with Soros; there is no way that he does not know Soros. I live in Massachusetts and am well aware of Romney's liberal leanings and proclivities. We need a real conservative; not a flip-flop waffler.
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Permalink Reply by Mark D. Kennedy on
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Hi Helaine, I'm Mark's wife and I forgot to put my name at the end of my post. I got an email recently and must have dumped it. I've hunted for it to no avail and can't remember who it was from, maybe AFP, Cowboy Byte, I don't know but it said he had Soros ties. At the very least his father has Alinsky ties. That is enough for me. If anyone else has seen it maybe they can post which organization sent it out. We are praying every night for Santorum to get the nomination. Our country, our Constitution and Bill of Rights was God's idea brought into existance (for the most part) by the hands of men who believed He existed and wanted to honor Him. We believe God is the one who will rescue us by the hand of a man or woman whose mindset is the same. I have heard Santorum speak of God and take flack for it. I hope he will never back down. -Rev. Linda Marie Kennedy
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